Imitation waterfall



K. W. H. SCHROEDER. IMITATION WATERFALL.

APPLICATION FILED 050.10, 1920.

Patented Dec. 6, 1921.

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OF LEIPZIG-REUIDNITZ, GERMANY.

IIVIITATION' WATERFALL.

incense.

To aZZ to 710m 2'2? may concern Be it known, that I, KARL W. ticnnonnnn, a citizen of the German Republic, and a resident of Leipziglieudnitz, Saxony, German. have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Imitation VVa-tert'alls, Especially for Advertising Purposes, of which the following is a specification.

It is a well known fact that the attention paid by the public to show-windows, advertising devices and the like considerably increased it movement is produced within the same. This is obtained in the subject matter of this invention by very simple means in such a manner, that an imitation of a water-play, tor instance a fountain emit ting a jet of water, is produced.

On the rear or back-side ot a fountain-like shaped advertising device or on the backside of an advertising picture, displayed in a show-window, a receptacle is disposed, which is not visible to the observer and which is filled'with finely granulated sand. Un the lower end of this receptacle a suitably shaped dischargeaperture, nozzle or the like, which preferably is made as small as possible and front face of the picture or in that side of the advertising device, which is turned toward the observer provided. From this dischargdaperture the finely granulated sand flows out and dribbles down in the term of a jet, so that it produces the impression of a jet of water and thereby confers to the picture or advertising device a movement, which attracts the attention or the observer. The jet can emanate trom the mouth of a lien, or from the relief of a fountain, represented on the advertising or from such a representation of the advertising picture, whereby the iniprea sion of the flowing jet oi water is still increased.

llhe discharge aperture further can be arranged in such anianner, that the appar ent jet oi water flows toward a certain point oi the advertising device or picture, to which the attention of the observer is to be espccially directed.

In the accompanying drawing, in which one embodiment of the subject matter of my invention is illustrated,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 6, 1Q 2l.

Application filed December 10, 1920. Serial No. 429,743.

Figure 1 is a front view and Fig. 2 is cross l[-l of Fig.1.

In the drawings 1 indicates the pillar, which is shaped in the form of a fountain and is provided with the fountain-trough or basin 2, the funnel-shaped receptacle 3 arranged above said basin on the back-side of the pillar and serving to receive the finely granulated sand, which shall dribble down, and with a nozzle, arranged in an incision of the front side of the pillar near the lower end of the funnel shaped receptacle. This nozzle consists in this embodiment of the subject matter of my invention of a piece of sheet metal 4, provided with horizontal transverse slots 5, which are produced between tongues punched out of the metal and of my novel device section of the same on line bent toward the inner side of the receptacle 3. Under the overpressure prevailing within said receptacle the sand dribbles downover the distributing ledge ii of the nozzle 4: into the basin 2 andrfrom there through an opening 7 into a receptacle 8,

from it which it can be removed and again filled into the receptacle 3.

Having thus particularly described the nature of my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. A device for imitating a water-fall, comprising a supporting element, a recepta cle thereon tor finely granulated sand and having a discharge slot and a distrilniting led 'e below said slot, and a. rcceivin rece in r:

tacle below the first named receptacle.

2'. A device for imitating a wateraliall, comprising a supporting element, a receptacle thereon for finely granulated sand and having a discharge slot and a distril'iuting ledge l elow said slot, and a receiving receptacle below the first named receptacle, and a removable collecting receptacle into which said receiving receptacle discharges.

In testimony whereof I allin my signature in presence of two witnesses.

KARL Wltlilltll'l HEllllllll'Ill SCHROEDER.

Witnesses EMIL GROSS-ERY, RICHARD WINKLER. 

